On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:20:46PM -0800, Jim Varney wrote: > > Updating my Potato system a few days ago with dselect broke my X windows. X > starts up with the herringbone and shows a single shell window and prompt. > It never gets as far as the full desktop. I have to use cntl-alt-backspace > to close the aborted X session. In my xsession error file it says X is working fine. However, no window manager is being started. Try "update-alternatives --display x-window-manager", possibly the alternatives system got stuck in manual mode and is pointing to a window manager you've since removed. man update-alternatives for more info, and the command to put things back in automatic mode. -- finger for GPG public key.
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